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Let my people go : Bible stories told by a freeman of color to his daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-16 / by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack ; illustrated by James E. Ransome.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.M478693 Le 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
- McKissack, Fredrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Bible stories--Old Testament.
- Bible stories--O.T.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible stories--O.T.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, [3], 134 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [©1998].
- Summary:
- The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the experiences of African Americans.
- Contents:
- Something wonderful out of nothing (The Creation)
- Making choices (The fall of Cain and Abel)
- The big water (Noah and the flood)
- A love worth waiting for (Jacob and Rachel)
- How can you forgive? (The story of Joseph)
- God will not hold with wrong (Moses and the Exodus)
- Your God is my god (Ruth and Naomi)
- To slay a giant (David and Goliath)
- What do you pray for? (The wisdom of Solomon)
- No greater love (Queen Esther)
- A change of heart (The story of Jonah)
- By faith (Daniel the prophet)
- Chain of faith, hope and love (The Book of Proverbs).
- Notes:
- "An Anne Schwartz book."
- "Book design by Edward Miller and Ann Bobco."
- "The text of this book is set in Centaur."
- "The illustrations are rendered in oil paint."
- "First Edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "Guaranteed Reinforced Binding".
- ISBN:
- 0689808569 :
- 9780689808562
- OCLC:
- 36865694
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Internet sites about Slavery
- Internet sites about African Americans
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